Panicking citizens flood LA police with 911 calls – because Facebook is down

Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was forced to send out a Twitter message asking panicking citizens to stop calling 911 because Facebook was down.

The wonderfully-named Sgt Burton Brink tweeted on Friday: ‘#Facebook is not a law enforcement issue, please don’t call us about it being down, we don’t know when FB will be back up!’

Nervous residents – fearing that they had been permanently cut off from the world of cat memes and pictures of friends’ meals – had been choking 911 and the regular police number throughout the afternoon.

#Facebook is not a Law Enforcement issue, please don’t call us about it being down, we don’t know when FB will be back up!